Online Poker Study - All players are welcome

Hi everyone, my name is Mindy Morgan. I’m a PhD student in psychology at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, ON, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Celine Blanchard. I’m doing an online study investigating Decision-Making in Poker Players for my dissertation. I’m an avid player myself and love this game.

All poker players are welcome at any skill or experience level. If you are interested in taking part, here is the link: https://www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=133190 It takes about 20 minutes or so to complete the online survey. This study is completely anonymous.

Please feel free to share the link with any of your poker buddies!

Take care and hope you’ll take part!

Melinda

pics pls

On February 04 2010 21:04 whamm! wrote: pics pls

lol i bet if OP posted her pic everyone would be more willing to participate in the study.

went through the questions and it seems pretty legitimate and well put together. no secret aim security questions stuck in anywhere or anything like that

On February 04 2010 21:09 PoorUser wrote: went through the questions and it seems pretty legitimate and well put together. no secret aim security questions stuck in anywhere or anything like that

Thanks for taking the time and having a look at it

On February 04 2010 21:04 Silver)Z( wrote:

Lol yes it does

On February 04 2010 21:09 PoorUser wrote: went through the questions and it seems pretty legitimate and well put together. no secret aim security questions stuck in anywhere or anything like that

very smart to bait op into posting pics lol

how did you find LP, if i may ask?

edit: also are the "processing" times purposefully long in order to determine patience?

On February 04 2010 21:44 Etherone wrote: how did you find LP, if i may ask? edit: also are the "processing" times purposefully long in order to determine patience?

Hi, I just found through a google search. The processing time shouldn't be long Sorry about that. It must be the site, it's usually pretty decent and quick. Thanks for taking the time to fill it out BTW

Wouldn't any biased sample group make any conclusions worthless? Even with respect to just decision making, the data you are getting is from a non-random sample.

yea a lot of these questions i'm just trying to think of what is most +EV

a lot of the people here are poker professionals so they won't be answering the way a normal random player would.. also a lot of questions that are pretty useless where its like would you take $20 on the dice hitting 1-5 or $100 on the dice hitting 6 exactly.. where i am like i don't care whatever nets me the most profit

or like question is would you rather lose $500 for sure or 50% chance of losing $1000
where i will probably answer 50% chance of losing $1000 but i believe my motives are probably different for that answer than other peoples would be, cuz i get annoyed if i lose money, but the difference between 500 and 1000 doesn't matter to me, but being even does lol

I'm sure shes aware that this is a different sample set. Thats why she asked here. I imagine she is going to compare groups.

Edit: started taking this but its way too long. Sorry.

On February 04 2010 22:08 bigbb33 wrote: Wouldn't any biased sample group make any conclusions worthless? Even with respect to just decision making, the data you are getting is from a non-random sample.

Thanks for your comment! Well, the population I'm studying is poker players, so posting on forums is the best way to access this population. Online studies are actually more generalizable because my sample can be from all around the world. I'm not just limited to my local area.

On February 04 2010 22:19 MezmerizePLZ wrote: or like question is would you rather lose $500 for sure or 50% chance of losing $1000 where i will probably answer 50% chance of losing $1000 but i believe my motives are probably different for that answer than other peoples would be, cuz i get annoyed if i lose money, but the difference between 500 and 1000 doesn't matter to me, but being even does lol

All great points, I will definitely be looking at experience in how individuals answer these questions

edited: says at the end dont share questions from it

On February 04 2010 22:36 Ket wrote: 4. In a game of chance, which option would you choose? OPTION A: A 50% chance to win a three-week tour of England, France, and Italy OPTION B: A one-week tour of England, with certainty option c, oh god neither plz?

lol that was my exact thoughts during that question aswell

On February 04 2010 22:29 UOPokerStudy wrote: Show nested quote + On February 04 2010 22:08 bigbb33 wrote: Wouldn't any biased sample group make any conclusions worthless? Even with respect to just decision making, the data you are getting is from a non-random sample. Thanks for your comment! Well, the population I'm studying is poker players, so posting on forums is the best way to access this population. Online studies are actually more generalizable because my sample can be from all around the world. I'm not just limited to my local area.

Right, but the poker players you are getting are not going to be representative of "poker players" as a whole, but rather those who wanted to take an online survey, and thus you can't generalize whatever results you get to "poker players as a whole" or "poker players" or "poker players in general".

On February 04 2010 21:53 UOPokerStudy wrote: Show nested quote + On February 04 2010 21:44 Etherone wrote: how did you find LP, if i may ask? edit: also are the "processing" times purposefully long in order to determine patience? Hi, I just found through a google search. The processing time shouldn't be long Sorry about that. It must be the site, it's usually pretty decent and quick. Thanks for taking the time to fill it out BTW

Looks like Naz's strategy of taking LP bandwidth money and throwing it at SEO's is finally paying off